✴️ #about_Smyslov

🔸 Vasily Smyslov
🔸 Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster

♦️ Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, who was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958. He was a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on eight occasions.

🔘 Full name: Vasily Vasilyevich (Vasilievich) Smyslov
🔘 Country: Soviet Union
🔘 Born: 24 March 1921
Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
🔘 Died: 27 March 2010 (aged 89)
Moscow, Russia
🔘 Title: Grandmaster
🔘 World Champion: 1957–58
🔘 Peak rating: 2620 (July 1971)

🔰 Smyslov twice tied for first place at the Soviet Championships (1949, 1955), and his total of 17 Chess Olympiad medals won is an all-time record. In five European Team Championships, Smyslov won ten gold medals.

🔰 Smyslov remained active and successful in competitive chess well after the age of sixty. Despite failing eyesight, he remained active in the occasional composition of chess problems and studies until shortly before his death in 2010. Besides chess, he was an accomplished baritone singer.
🔰 Smyslov first became interested in chess at the age of six. His father, Vasily Osipovich Smyslov, worked as an engineering technician and had represented the St. Petersburg Technical Institute in intercollegiate chess competitions. Smyslov's father had also studied chess for a time under the tutelage of Mikhail Chigorin and the senior Smyslov became the boy's first teacher. The elder Smyslov gave his son a copy of Alexander Alekhine's book My Best Games of Chess 1908–1923 and the future world champion would later write that this book became his constant reference.

♦️ A memorable game by Smyslov against Karpov in USSR Championship 1971 which named "Vasillage" in chessgames.com site!👇🏼
▪️ Vasily Smyslov vs Anatoly Karpov
▪️ USSR Championship (1971), Leningrad URS, rd 9, Sep-27
▪️ Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Tarrasch Defense. Pillsbury Variation (D41)

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▪️ Vasily Smyslov - Anatoly Karpov, USSR Championship (1971)
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🔹 UNITY CHESS STAMP ALBUM
Published in August 20, 2018
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🔹 On August 20, 2018 the Kyrgyz Republic puts into circulation a Kyrgyz Express Post postage stamp: “43rd Chess Olympiad”.
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🔵 43rd Chess Olympiad Chess Tournament
🔹 Batumi, Georgia, 23 September - 6 October 2018


🔷 On August 20, 2018 the State Committee of Information Technology and Communications of the Kyrgyz Republic puts into circulation a Kyrgyz Express Post postage stamp: “43rd Chess Olympiad”.
Chess is a very popular sport. Millions of people on the planet play this ancient, intellectual game. The World Chess Federation (FIDE), since 1927, organizes official Chess Olympiads. Since 1950, they are held once every two years. Georgia has always been famous for its chess players, so it is not surprising that this country received the honor of hosting the 43rd Chess Olympiad. As in 2016, the team from Kyrgyzstan participates in the Chess Olympiad.

🔹 STAMP DESCRIPTION👇
No. 102. 100 KGS. A chessboard and pieces against a background of a world map, as well as the logo of the Kyrgyz Chess Federation.

🔹 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 👇
▪️ Paper: coated, gummed, 105 g/m2.
▪️ Printing method: full-color offset lithography.
▪️ Stamp perforation: comb 14:14½.
▪️ Stamp size: 46.00 x 27.50 mm.
▪️ Sheet size: 113.00 x 108.00 mm.
▪️ Stamp is issued in sheetlets of 4 stamps + 2 labels.
▪️On the sheet borders there are names of the series in Kyrgyz and English languages and images of Batumi architectural sights. The labels in the sheet center depict two different chess combinations and a gold cup.
▪️ Quantity issued: 6 000 pieces.
▪️ Designer: Aliona Cojocari.
▪️ Printer House: “Nova Imprim”.

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From 'Chess in the USSR' (No. 4, 1976) - a report, by Mikhail Yudovich, on the USSR Under-18 Championship that took place in Tbilisi in January of that year. First place was taken on tie-break by the 13-year-old Garry kasparov.

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Mikhail Botvinnik vs Pianov Pavlov, Moscow, 1927.
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"What is a weak pawn? A pawn that is exposed to attack and also difficult to defend is a weak pawn. There are several varieties: isolated, doubled, too advanced, retarded."

🔸Samuel Reshevsky (1976) "The Art of Positional Play"

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The strong master and celebrated theoretician from Ukraine, Isaak Lipnitsky - pictured in play v. Efim Geller in the 5th round of the 20th USSR Championship, Moscow, 4th December 1952.

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The 2018 Chess.com Speed Chess Championship will feature 16 of the world's best chess players in an innovative eSports bracket tournament and a guaranteed prize pool of $55,000.

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Grischuk vs Duda #speedchess match starts with 2 victories of the Russian GM. #chessnews

🔴 Sept. 18, 11 a.m. PDT: Grischuk vs Duda

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